Liquid oxygen?

My dad was diagnosed 3 years ago,and use to use 2 POC's bidged together. Hospice changed him over to 4 liquid containers bridged into a nasal cannula. They are having difficulty finding a humidifier that can handle the HIGH flow. All units are on MAX... his nasal passages and throat are really hurting/bleeding... so painful to watch. Does anyone know of anyone on that high a concentration?? Help?

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What liter are the containers set on? I don't know what the max is on the meters they are using. Why not put a humidifier on each tank? To tell you the truth, I've never seen anyone run on more then 6 L/min and one tank would do that.

He is running 3 on the max, which is 8 liters I believe... the 4th wont go above 6... they are sinced together... I would guess 30 liters/minute... when I put on regular humidifier from concentrators,O2 would leak out valve due to the high flow and pressure... so 3 machines on 8 and 1 on 6 bridged into one cannula

There is a different type of humidifier that is used in hospitals, but I don't know the name of it. I've run the regular green top or blue top ones on 6l/min. Have you tried using a few cool mist vaporizers near his bed? That might at least help some. You could even do like the old croupe tents, using plastic over him and the humidifiers, to concentrate it at him. You 'd need to fashion some kind of frame over the bed. The other thing that can help is if you use saline in a nebulizer (like they use for breathing treatments) for him to breathe in. Breathing unhumidified oxygen can create really irritated airways, I feel for him.